We are living in the future, guys.

[conuly]

We’ve all seen those letter grades affixed to the doors of our favorite restaurants. While I don’t give them a second look, I know people who are nervous to eat at restaurants that are anything but A’s. So I imagine, anecdotally, that they can affect business quite a bit.

http://bit.ly/1gUXALh

How Can You Explain “Color” to an 11-Year-Old?

Alan Alda’s challenge to scientists: Let kids be the judges.

http://slate.me/1mqQx2m

Ukraine Revolution Erupts in New Wave of Violence

http://world.time.com/2014/02/18/ukraine-revolution-erupts-in-fresh-violence/

Yet another banker jumps to his death

http://tinyurl.com/pekt6gu

3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralyzed skier walk again

http://cnet.co/1nNhUio

Finnish reindeer now have glowing antlers to protect them from cars

http://bit.ly/1htmTY7

Here’s a new, cute way to eat animals without guilt or cruelty

Freaking adorable!

http://grist.org/list/omurice-cute-animal-shaped-omelettes/

After four of his classmates and his mother were all hit by cars while out biking or walking, 17-year-old Matthew Cutrone wrote a letter to his county legislators asking for safer roads. Suffolk County (NY) Legislator Thomas Barraga responded with a letter shared by Matthew's mother and posted below, stating that "no one who lives in our hamlet or for that matter in Suffolk County should ever ride a bicycle." Get a load of this:

http://bit.ly/1c2wYUj

Pedestrian and Bicyclist Crash Statistics

http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/factsheet_crash.cfm

Cartoon: The dignity of work

http://bit.ly/N9Hxic

Data Proves De Blasio Right: It Takes A Lot Of Snow To Close NYC Schools

http://bit.ly/1eQZzvt

These incredible, reflective buildings look almost invisible

http://bit.ly/1dLRBIL

Why are the only American meat options chicken, beef and pork?

http://bit.ly/1nNjl0z

There's A Clown Shortage: Who Will Fill Those Big Shoes?

http://n.pr/McrShc

This weekend’s massive protest in North Carolina shows that the GOP doesn’t own morality.

http://slate.me/1bIHLmt

Comments

[hopefulnebula]

The letter grades actually aren't posted in front of restaurants here. I had no clue that was a thing until I saw them in Kentucky. They still get graded, of course, you just have to look up the grades yourself (or ask at the restaurant) if you want to know.

[conuly]

Once we got used to them, it was like they'd always been here!

[waterfall8484]

There's so much interesting stuff here, thank you!

Reading 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, and 15.

[redbird]

The io9 link led me to an article on the transfer of acne bacteria from humans to grapevines: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/02/19/molbev.msu075.abstract?sid=4051eb51-efe3-4164-b49e-17a658e7e447

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Daniel used to raise rabbits for meat and fur. Maybe we should do that again... Chickens and rabbits. We have enough yard space for THEM!